04-13-2015, 10:30 PM
Got free tickets to a premier of A Little Chaos.
Alan Rickman film about gardeners in love during the development of Versailles. The 5 or 6 main actors are all very impressive and there are few scenes that don't do their job, but the whole was very much worth less than the sum of its parts. I guess it lost impetus 2/3s of the way through as it got deeper in to the courtly life of the closeted world of Versailles under the sun king. Listening to others leaving, i think i got more from it as a period piece/thesp's folly than they did as a bit of romantic fluff.
6/10
Alan Rickman film about gardeners in love during the development of Versailles. The 5 or 6 main actors are all very impressive and there are few scenes that don't do their job, but the whole was very much worth less than the sum of its parts. I guess it lost impetus 2/3s of the way through as it got deeper in to the courtly life of the closeted world of Versailles under the sun king. Listening to others leaving, i think i got more from it as a period piece/thesp's folly than they did as a bit of romantic fluff.
6/10